Browser History

[SS-18 ICBM]

Do you guys keep it? If you do, why, and for how long? I really can't think of any good reason to do so. If you need to go back to a site enough times you can just bookmark it. Or are there other reasons I'm overlooking? Other thoughts, snarky comments, and puns about history are also welcome.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I clear it out once a week, when I do my general computer cleaning.

 

[Borachio]

I don't keep it at all. I don't trust these computer thingies one little bit.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

How do you bring yourself to use one then?

 

[dutchfire]

I do rm ~/.firefox every now and then, when it crashed and doesn't want to restart. I should clear out my laptop more often, I suppose.

 

[Borachio]

^^Sometimes I'm just very daring. But there's no point exposing yourself more than necessary. And I'm getting increasingly paranoid.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I clear it out whenever, its not that big a deal for me.

 

[LucyDuke]

I keep it, but it's not much help, I can never remember what the hell I'm looking for anyway.

 

[warpus]

I have a system set up where I have to manually press a button every 2 weeks or my internet browser history is removed.

This is in case I die.

 

[cardgame]

I clear it out occasionally.

 

[BvBPL]

I very, very rarely clear it out. I don't use bookmarks so it is okay for me.

 

[Skwink]

Google's Chrome tells me my profile can't be opened everytime I open the app, and apparently that makes some features unusable. One of those features is history, so I have none to delete.

 

[TomYo689]

I'm among those who used to delete it frequently and now rarely or never. Honestly history is only for your convenience any tracking done on you isn't deleted

 

[Borachio]

This makes some sense. On the other hand, how would you know who has access to your history too?

 

[Quintillus]

I rarely actually delete my browser history, but by default, my browser (Opera) only stores a certain amount of sites visited, anyway. So, in practice, only relatively recent history is actually still available.

I find it occasionally useful. Sometimes I accidentally close the browser, and then it's handy for getting back to where I was (especially if I'd followed a lot of links). And sometimes I want to look up more about something a day or two later. Being able to search the history is often fairly efficient then.

I don't use bookmarks much anymore. I used to, but that lead to the problem of having so many bookmarks that they weren't helpful anymore. Nowadays, I use Firefox's Bookmark Bar for the most important links at work, and when I want to save something for future reference at home, I usually save it to my hard drive. But even that is fairly rare.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I should've voted forever, but oh well.

Anyways, I sort-of keep it "forever", but really, I delete it every few months or so.

 

[The_J]

My history is deleted when I close the browser.
Just saver.

 

[Zelig]

My browser history only holds a certain number of items, so I'm not sure why I'd ever bother clearing it.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Anyways, I sort-of keep it "forever", but really, I delete it every few months or so.

That would be "within a year".

 

[Cutlass]

I only clear it when there's a problem. Otherwise I ignore it.